Letter to Friedrich Engels, June 22, 1882

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 22 June 1882


First published abridged in Der Briefwechsel zwischen F. Engels und K. Marx, Bd. 4, Stuttgart, 1913 and in full in MEGA, Abt. III, Bd. 4, Berlin, 1931
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 46


MARX TO ENGELS

IN LONDON

[Argenteuil,] 22 June 1882

DEAR FRED,

Your letter[1] arrived no more than a minute or two before the post which goes damned early. Hence only a few words.

I have not been able to REPORT PROGRESS until today because the sulphur operations were suspended from Sunday[2] until yesterday inclusive on account of the rainy weather and did not begin again until today. AT PRESENT TIME it's devilish cold at Cauterets and the season there doesn't NORMALLY begin until the middle of JULY. SO in the event Enghien has proved most opportune, although up till now the weather has not been good enough to permit UNINTERRUPTED use of the institution thermale. Other people, who need not be careful about a résidu,[3] wouldn't have to bother so much. Dr Dourlen says that the whole difficulty lies in avoiding anything that might cause a recurrence of pleurisy.

Let the chaps in New York go ahead with their own 'reprint', though they must take care that there are no unauthorised additions.

We shall, then, expect Helen[4] on Sunday. It is still too early — for I must fight shy of all lengthy conversations just now — to advise Lavrov of my presence. He's just the man to make me prattle on for hours.

Love to Jennychen.

Your

K. M.

  1. ↑ A reference to the Adzhars' guerrilla warfare in the rear of the Russian army in the Caucasus, which held back its advance in that theatre of war.
  2. ↑ 11 June
  3. ↑ residue
  4. ↑ Demuth — A slip of the pen in the ms.: Marx probably means his daughter Eleanor.